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Mentoring and Multiplying Leaders
Come alongside people to help them achieve personal and strategic goals. By Trisha Welstad
Focal Point | Light+Life Magazine We recently moved, causing our family to shuffle our belongings across the city while releasing many of them to friends, neighbors, and local nonprofits. Though we had less stuff, we did not have many ways to organize in our new home.
After a visit to Ikea and some online shopping, we began the process of rebuilding, literally. We needed shelves and cupboards, a dresser and a desk. As the boxes of “ready to build” items started to arrive, I felt a bit overwhelmed. But then my 7-year-old — who had proclaimed, “God made me a builder,” at 4 years of age — began to get excited. We pulled out our adult and kid-sized tools and began to set up our space.
My kids were so into building that they would grab the hammer and just start hitting screws, bolts, nails. Then I would stop them and invite them to watch me, then set up the nails for them, and eventually they were nailing the back to the bookshelf without me. My son noted that his nails looked old once he had pounded them in while mine still looked new. We talked through the grip on a hammer and how to hold a nail to not smash your thumb. It became a fun process where I had the joy of seeing them learn something new that helped our whole family.
This is mentoring.
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